Now playing at the taxpayer-subsidized Toronto Film Festival of Liberalism: Liberal Long-Gun Registry, Part Deux (this time with more socialism!… and free popcorn …. and beer!).
Here’s some snippets out of Ottawa Sun columnist Greg Weston’s latest column, where he put a pen to paper and did “math”. Liberals are against “math”.
… The Liberals say they are committed to energy-retrofitting 50% of Canadian homes by 2020, and 100% by 2030.
Dion estimated the two programs would cost $435 million in the first four years, much of it to be paid out of the Liberals’ centrepiece “Green Shift” carbon tax.
… There is only one small hitch—Dion is promising to solve a problem which doesn’t exist at a cost that would break the federal treasury.
[…]
There’s another problem with Dion’s plan.
Each home has to be inspected by a qualified environmental “auditor.”
Last year, the Conservative government doubled the number of auditors previously employed under the Liberals, and still they only got to 35,000 homes.
At that rate, it would take roughly 200 years just to audit the half of all Canadian homes that Dion promises will be retrofitted in the next 12 years.
Even if the feds keep handing out rebates at the current average rate of $1,250, Dion’s plan to get the drafts out of 50% of Canadian homes would cost almost $10 billion. …
Given that the Liberals’ infamous long-gun registry ended up costing 2,000 times (yes 2,000 times) more than they budgeted and planned and promised, I would put that $10 BILLION figure at closer to, oh, countless HUNDREDS of BILLIONS (which could otherwise have been spent by us on our beer and popcorn needs).
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